Three Flowers Gather at the Crown, Five Qi Converge at the Origin

"Penglai?"

The Black Shadow chuckled and slowly reached out his hand.

At that instant, Jiang Sheng sensed that something had changed above the ninth heaven.

The drifting clouds, the daylight, the rainbow-hued glow, even the Spiritual Resonance between heaven and earth and the starry expanse surrounding the ninth heaven—all came to a halt.

It was as though something invisible had enveloped everything, severing every thread of Karmic Cause and Effect and freezing the future of all things.

Then a mass of intertwined light and shadow rose from below, drifting toward Jiang Sheng and the Black Shadow in the ninth heaven.

Half the mass was crimson, half pitch-black. Red and black tangled and eroded each other, yet remained sharply divided, like a frozen Yin-Yang symbol.

A closer look revealed that the intertwined red and black light held two figures: Rahu and Li Yang.

But the bodies of those two Mahayana cultivators, those two beings half a step from Pure Yang, had been twisted beyond recognition and joined in a grotesque pose. Behind their heads, their two Dao Fruits had lost the radiance that once shone across the cosmos.

One red, one black, the two Dao Fruits hung silently behind Li Yang and Rahu's heads, like the eyes of the two fish in a Yin-Yang diagram.

The tangled mass of light and shadow came to rest before the Black Shadow without resistance, as if time itself had frozen.

The Black Shadow chuckled. "I thought they would fight until blood ran from their heads, shattering the Mountain-Sea Three Realms and leaving them in ruins."

"But I never expected them to reach the Heaven and Earth Embryonic Membrane and choose to perish together like this."

"They fought for two hundred thousand years, from the previous cosmic cycle through this one, only to fall together